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Posted: 12:45 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15, 2012
ALTOONA, Pa. —
A patient has contracted fungal meningitis from an Altoona facility that had originally said it never used a steroid connected to a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Monday.
The Pennsylvania Health Department said the patient received an epidural steroid injection at Allegheny Pain Management in Altoona in July.
The contaminated shot was recalled in September and was produced at the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.
As of Monday, 205 people in 14 states have been infected by tainted shots made by that company, and 15 people have died.
The health department said the person who was infected in Altoona is hospitalized and receiving treatment.
Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
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